Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address due to Punjab massacre . . ." For many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited . . . For the sake of my safety, please stop corresponding with your humble reader...
They all derive from the same source: 18th Century Europe.*Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum explored the source with an exhibition of 18th Century porcelain figures and tableware drawn from Italy, Germany, France, England, Austria and Spain...
...going to have the windows washed, and keep at it. Said he solemnly: "The people want it." By this week Sam's idea had spread to other saloons in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, and Sam was getting more trade in a day than he had drawn before in a week. The nickel beer was here to stay, Sam announced...
...legs. His skin is greenish white, like that of an aquatic animal. Only his hands and face are darker, the sun having burnt them. His baby shoulders, narrow and round, flow without angles into feminine arms and end in marvelous hands, small and of delicate design ... His huge stomach, drawn tight and smooth as a sphere, rests on strong legs . . . that end in large feet pointing outward in an obtuse angle as if to take in all the earth ... He sleeps in a fetal position and when awake moves with elegant slowness as if he lived in liquid . . . Women . . . would...
...unveiled last summer in Mexico City's new Del Prado Hotel, made history too (TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...